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September 2018

Wednesday Workshop: Badging Interest Meeting

September 5, 2018 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Digital Innovation Lab, 431 Greenlaw Hall, The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27517 United States
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Professional Development Workshop Series

Interested in Digital Pedagogy or Project Management? Do you use innovative approaches in the classroom or manage digital projects? Come learn about badges in Digital Pedagogy and Digital Project Management offered through the Digital Innovation Lab to show prospective employers your skills!

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Wednesday Workshop: “The Public Turn: Getting Started with Public DH in the Triangle”

September 19, 2018 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Digital Innovation Lab, 431 Greenlaw Hall, The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27517 United States
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Professional Development Workshop Series

Please join the Digital Innovation Lab and Nathan Kelber, Digital Scholarship Specialist of UNC Libraries for The Public Turn: Getting Started with Public DH in the Triangle. This is a practical talk aimed at helping faculty and graduate students interested in doing Public Digital Humanities work. You will learn how to get involved through the University Libraries, the Triangle Digital Humanities Network, and the upcoming Triangle Digital Humanities Institute. The goal will be to open a conversation with humanities scholars about…

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October 2018

Digital Humanities Nuts and Bolts: From Idea to Sustainable Project at the National Humanities Center

October 2, 2018 @ 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
National Humanities Center, 7 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 7 T.W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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While any number of intriguing and influential digital humanities initiatives have emerged over the past decade, it has become increasingly clear that successful digital efforts must be carefully conceived and managed over time to realize their scholarly potential. This day-long conference, presented by the National Humanities Center, will focus on planning, logistics, and long-term maintenance of digital humanities (DH) projects. Welcoming experts who employ digital humanities tools and methods in their research and the classroom as well as specialists on…

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Wednesday Workshop: Recreating Archival Land Use Maps Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies: Yatenga, Burkina Faso 1954 and 1973

October 3, 2018 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Digital Innovation Lab, 431 Greenlaw Hall, The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27517 United States
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Professional Development Workshop Series

Join the DIL and Dr. Colin West from the Department of Anthropology for Recreating Archival Land Use Maps Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies: Yatenga, Burkina Faso 1954 and 1973. Social scientists working for the Office of Scientific and Technical Research Overseas (ORSTOM) in the 1970s and 80s founded the "terroir school" of French geography that produced rich descriptions of local land use practices across Africa. They had a passion (or perhaps obsession) for mapping and their case studies feature numerous beautiful maps…

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Wednesday Workshop: Editing Video in Adobe Premiere Rush: a Low Bridge to High Production Value

October 31, 2018 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Digital Innovation Lab, 431 Greenlaw Hall, The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27517 United States
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Professional Development Workshop Series

Please join us for Editing Video in Adobe Premiere Rush: a Low Bridge to High Production Value with Todd Taylor. Adobe has just released a game-changing video editor called Premiere Rush that has most of the power of Premiere Pro with a much easier, more intuitive interface and workspace.  Premiere Rush works almost identically on Mac and PC as well as on mobile devices and tablets.  As such, it enables teachers, students, and researchers to spend more time on the intellectual content of…

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November 2018

CANCELLED: Wednesday Workshop: “Text Analysis with Word Embeddings”

November 7, 2018 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Digital Innovation Lab, 431 Greenlaw Hall, The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27517 United States
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Professional Development Workshop Series

This workshop has been cancelled today and will be rescheduled for a date later in the semester.    Please join the Digital Innovation Lab and Grant Glass, PhD Candidate in English and Comparative Literature and a 2018-2018 Digital Literacy Fellow, for "Text Analysis with Word Embeddings." Can algorithms help us become better readers? Digital humanists have been asking this question for decades and as the technology evolves, this question becomes even more important. Machines are already reading and serving content…

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January 2019

Workshop: Text Analysis with Word Embeddings

January 31, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Digital Innovation Lab, 431 Greenlaw Hall, The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27517 United States
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Please join the Digital Innovation Lab and Grant Glass, PhD Candidate in English and Comparative Literature and a 2018 Digital Literacy Fellow, for "Text Analysis with Word Embeddings." Can algorithms help us become better readers? Digital humanists have been asking this question for decades and as the technology evolves, this question becomes even more important. Machines are already reading and serving content on the web, but how can we better understand what these algorithms do? This workshop will delve into…

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February 2019

Ted Underwood Lecture: Machine Learning and Historical Perspectives

February 6, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Davis Library Research Hub, Second Floor, 208 Raleigh St
Chapel Hill, NC 27514 United States

Ted Underwood, Professor of English and Information Sciences at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign describes how we can use numbers in a perspectival way to bring text analysis closer to the methodological assumptions of the humanities.

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March 2019

Humanities Data, Literacy, and Badging (HDLaB) Summit

March 2, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Davis Library Research Hub, Second Floor, 208 Raleigh St
Chapel Hill, NC 27514 United States
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Workshop: Building E-Portfolio Assignments

March 21, 2019 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Digital Innovation Lab, 431 Greenlaw Hall, The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27517 United States
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Please join the Digital Innovation Lab and Matthew Duncan, PhD Student in English and Comparative Literature and a 2018 Digital Project Management Fellow, for "Building E-Portfolio Assignments for WordPress." In this workshop, Matt will review the desired learning outcomes for e-portfolio projects, offer lesson plans for teaching e-portfolios with WordPress, and present a finished unit project assignment instructors can adapt for a wide range of courses. This session will offer tools for those interested in teaching e-portfolios and information for…

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